Technical Question
Since you asked...
Operating, there is a ROM 01 IIgs sitting on the desk, nicely expanded with 5Mb RAM, SCSI card, ZIP drive, a pair of 3.5" drives, 5.25" drive, Video Overlay Card, and an internal 250Mb hard drive with GS/OS 6.0.1 loaded. The drive is partitioned into 32 Mb ProDOS partitions named /GEMINI, /THUNDERBOLT, /CYCLONE, and /TORNADO while the rest is an HFS partition named :Magnum. I also have a 1.44Mb FDHD SuperDrive for this one, but I'm lacking the necessary controller.
On the other end of the desk is an enhanced //e with a DuoDisk and a 20Mb hard drive (boots to ProDOS in about 1.5 seconds!) named /RAVEN. That one has a RamWorks card in it; I think it's 1Mb, which frees up my 64k memory card for another machine (in the ][e you can count on 64k, with 128k more-or-less standard; anything else just gives you a big desktop in AppleWorks).
Also floating around the house are a lot of spare parts...a couple of IIgs main units, a couple of unenhanced ][e's (all with DuoDisks, unfortunately...no Disk ]['s), and a //c stuffed into various closets. Oh, and I have a working but disused Lisa 2/5 sitting on the floor in the spare bedroom. That covers the 65C816, 65C02, 6502, and 68000 machines. I recently acquired an Amiga 3000UX with a bunch of extras including a 68040 CPU board. Finally, in my pocket is the 8086 that Bill is talking about (well, really it's an NEC V30MX) in my Psion Series 3MX palmtop. With a 1998 copyright date on the bottom, it's the most recent machine I own! :)
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Operating, there is a ROM 01 IIgs sitting on the desk, nicely expanded with 5Mb RAM, SCSI card, ZIP drive, a pair of 3.5" drives, 5.25" drive, Video Overlay Card, and an internal 250Mb hard drive with GS/OS 6.0.1 loaded. The drive is partitioned into 32 Mb ProDOS partitions named /GEMINI, /THUNDERBOLT, /CYCLONE, and /TORNADO while the rest is an HFS partition named :Magnum. I also have a 1.44Mb FDHD SuperDrive for this one, but I'm lacking the necessary controller.
On the other end of the desk is an enhanced //e with a DuoDisk and a 20Mb hard drive (boots to ProDOS in about 1.5 seconds!) named /RAVEN. That one has a RamWorks card in it; I think it's 1Mb, which frees up my 64k memory card for another machine (in the ][e you can count on 64k, with 128k more-or-less standard; anything else just gives you a big desktop in AppleWorks).
Also floating around the house are a lot of spare parts...a couple of IIgs main units, a couple of unenhanced ][e's (all with DuoDisks, unfortunately...no Disk ]['s), and a //c stuffed into various closets. Oh, and I have a working but disused Lisa 2/5 sitting on the floor in the spare bedroom. That covers the 65C816, 65C02, 6502, and 68000 machines. I recently acquired an Amiga 3000UX with a bunch of extras including a 68040 CPU board. Finally, in my pocket is the 8086 that Bill is talking about (well, really it's an NEC V30MX) in my Psion Series 3MX palmtop. With a 1998 copyright date on the bottom, it's the most recent machine I own! :)
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
My god you have a Lisa? Something tells me your not on the waiting list for a new Titanium PowerBook.
Anyway, thanks for the info. It's an impressive collection.
(And Jeff, thanks for letting us eat up your bandwidth.)
Anyway, thanks for the info. It's an impressive collection.
(And Jeff, thanks for letting us eat up your bandwidth.)
hmm...you are all talking about your new, fast, computers while im still using my good ol' 233mhz,72mb ram, 23gb (20gb+3gb) hard drive running windows 2000 ( to test my ASP scripts of course ). Dont we all remember the nice days of when a program only needed a 100mhz processor??
*What the hell am i talking about...i want your computers...muahahahah
*** This post was edited by Mantis-Guru on 2/8/2001. ***
*What the hell am i talking about...i want your computers...muahahahah
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Wow Dave! You take the cake.
I thought I had a burial ground for computers in my basement, but now I fell petty in comparison. The only thing I can compare to you is about 50 million (4) Osborns, a Lisa (Buried in the garage somewhere), and an old 8086 Zenith with the black and green screen.
Sir, I applaud you ;).
Oh, and Jeff, I'll pay you for the bandwidth. How about a computer? They're lighting fast at speeds up to and including 8086. Less memory than the average dollar stores pocket calulator :). How about it?
Captin wise-ass signing off...
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."
~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simpson
*** This post was edited by Intamin2k on 2/9/2001. ***
I thought I had a burial ground for computers in my basement, but now I fell petty in comparison. The only thing I can compare to you is about 50 million (4) Osborns, a Lisa (Buried in the garage somewhere), and an old 8086 Zenith with the black and green screen.
Sir, I applaud you ;).
Oh, and Jeff, I'll pay you for the bandwidth. How about a computer? They're lighting fast at speeds up to and including 8086. Less memory than the average dollar stores pocket calulator :). How about it?
Captin wise-ass signing off...
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."
~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simpson
*** This post was edited by Intamin2k on 2/9/2001. ***
So, Intamin2k, is that a Lisa with the two 5.25" Twiggy drives, or a Lisa 2 (like mine) with a 400k 3.5" floppy? If you've got the Twiggys, I've got a copy of COBOL for you...the disks don't even fit into my Lisa... :)
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Ok.. I can't resist this thread anymore..
4 Commodore 64's - 2 Commodore 128's - 1 Commodore Amiga 1000 - 1 TRS-80 Model 1 (with 16k expansion box which is bigger than the boxxes we use now) - TRS-80 Model 3 - Apple II+ (still painted candy apple red from the days when I ran The Red Apple BBS is the early 80's) - One Mac Plus - One Mac LCIII - 1 IMB PCJr - 1 386 16Mhz - 2 482 DX4 100 Mhz - 3 Pentium 133's - 2 Pentium 166's - One AMD 350 - One AMD 900 - One Pentium III 650.
Ohh and an Atari 400 and Coleco Adam that I use as door stops downstairs.
God I'm a geek..
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MF 2000 - 269 laps *** This post was edited by Red Garter Rob on 2/9/2001. ***
4 Commodore 64's - 2 Commodore 128's - 1 Commodore Amiga 1000 - 1 TRS-80 Model 1 (with 16k expansion box which is bigger than the boxxes we use now) - TRS-80 Model 3 - Apple II+ (still painted candy apple red from the days when I ran The Red Apple BBS is the early 80's) - One Mac Plus - One Mac LCIII - 1 IMB PCJr - 1 386 16Mhz - 2 482 DX4 100 Mhz - 3 Pentium 133's - 2 Pentium 166's - One AMD 350 - One AMD 900 - One Pentium III 650.
Ohh and an Atari 400 and Coleco Adam that I use as door stops downstairs.
God I'm a geek..
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MF 2000 - 269 laps *** This post was edited by Red Garter Rob on 2/9/2001. ***
I was running a 486 dx2/50 that probably only scrapped along at 33 w/ 24MBs RAM (Ever run Win95 on 4MB?). The Ox. =)
It occurs to me that my TI-89 is faster than some of Dave's computers. Does symbolic processing, too. =)
It occurs to me that my TI-89 is faster than some of Dave's computers. Does symbolic processing, too. =)
Wow... no history in my domain. I've had an Apple II+ and Atari 400, but those are long gone.
Today, I have:
Athlon 1 GHz (my box)
Athlon 700 MHz (Steph's box)
PII 266 MHz (dev server and DSL proxy)
PII 350 MHz motherboard and CPU, sitting idle
PIII 450 MHz Sony laptop
Celeron 500, powering the page you're reading now
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 50
Today, I have:
Athlon 1 GHz (my box)
Athlon 700 MHz (Steph's box)
PII 266 MHz (dev server and DSL proxy)
PII 350 MHz motherboard and CPU, sitting idle
PIII 450 MHz Sony laptop
Celeron 500, powering the page you're reading now
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
Millennium Force laps: 50
"Apple Lisa: The First affordable GUI."
"Here is a computer which foresaw the future, but because of its radical design and high price tag was short lived."
Dave~
The Lisa is my Dad's as is 1 of the Osbornes, so I wouldn't know. After I read your post, I asked him and he said that he thinks it's in a box somewhere in the garage or basement, but that he may have sold it. Thanks for the offer :).
Interesting tidbit: Zerox developed the first GUI but gave up on it and gave it away. Don't ya love PBS :)(revenge of the nerds program).
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."
~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simp
"Here is a computer which foresaw the future, but because of its radical design and high price tag was short lived."
Dave~
The Lisa is my Dad's as is 1 of the Osbornes, so I wouldn't know. After I read your post, I asked him and he said that he thinks it's in a box somewhere in the garage or basement, but that he may have sold it. Thanks for the offer :).
Interesting tidbit: Zerox developed the first GUI but gave up on it and gave it away. Don't ya love PBS :)(revenge of the nerds program).
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."
~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simp
Even better than the PBS show was TNT's "The Pirates of Silicon Valley"
Shows the rise of Apple and Microsoft at the same time from the eyes of Jobs, Woz, Allen, and Gates.
Woz and Jobs actually consulted on it. And of course, Gates didn't want it to air because it shows what a jerk he is.
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MF 2000 - 269 laps
Shows the rise of Apple and Microsoft at the same time from the eyes of Jobs, Woz, Allen, and Gates.
Woz and Jobs actually consulted on it. And of course, Gates didn't want it to air because it shows what a jerk he is.
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MF 2000 - 269 laps
I'm not one of them there fancy cable subscribers so I couldn't see that, but I've heard about it, and people said that it was pretty cool. I liked revenge of the nerds alot. Quite interesting if you ask me :).
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."
~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simp
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"Sorry, gotta go, my damn wiener kids are listening."
~From the brilliant mind of Homer J. Simp
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